approved some of the toughest anti-tobacco rules in the nation Thursday, extinguishing cigar bars and hookah bars and ending the sales of tobacco in pharmacies and on college campuses.

The Boston Public Health Commission, however, decided to give the bars 10 years before they would have to close, doubling the original proposed grace period for the establishments. Even then, the bars could seek an extension for another 10 years.

The Boston Public Health Commission, however, decided to give the bars 10 years before they would have to close, doubling the original proposed grace period for the establishments. Even then, the bars could seek an extension for another 10 years.

This is the power government lusts for today; the power to destroy and the power to hold that destructive force over the public and business. The cigar bars should call the cities bluff and close now en mass.

more of that weird New England Puritanism, no smoking signs posted at the homosexual marriage reception and the abortion clinic

Weird is right; so is hypocritical.

Although I was already aware of it with regard to abolition, not until my late 30's did I begin to pay real attention to the elitist New England penchant for "reform" that has affected this country since the beginning. The road to hell has indeed been paved with their "good" intentions.

Having said that, a smoking nazi is a smoking nazi, be it in Boston, Birmingham or Berlin...

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